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2 smuggling boats abandoned on beaches in Carlsbad, Mission Beach

Border Patrol officials on Wednesday investigated the discovery of two smuggling boats beached in San Diego County, with agents finding an empty panga in Carlsbad and arresting five people in Mission Beach in the second incident.

Tribune News Service

Eggs are so expensive, Californians are trying to bring them across the border from Mexico

LOS ANGELES — With egg prices spiking in California, Border Patrol agents have noticed a rise in the number of people trying to bring eggs across the border from Mexico, which is illegal.

Los Angeles Times

Calls To 'Close the Border' in Response to Fentanyl Deaths Are Misguided

As Biden mentioned fentanyl deaths in his State of the Union address, Republicans called on him to close the border. But "open borders" aren't to blame for overdoses.

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From Orange County to the Texas border: How Bill Melugin became a Fox News fixture

LOS ANGELES — Right before Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin goes on the air to deliver a live report — these days mostly from the southern border — he looks down for a moment and whispers.

Los Angeles Times

In first GOP-led hearing about the border, witnesses paint sharply different pictures

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee blamed Biden administration policies for the record number of migrant apprehensions. Democrats accused them of fear-mongering and spreading misinformation.

WEKU

Gov. Greg Abbott hires “border czar” to accelerate wall construction

The governor said Mike Banks, a recently retired Border Patrol agent, will work with the Texas National Guard and state troopers to find ways to deter people from crossing the border illegally.

The Texas Tribune

Biden Can Use a First Fix for a Broken Immigration System

Extending humanitarian parole helps encourage legal migration.

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Death of public safety officer at Texas-Mexico border was preventable, experts say

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The patrol arrived around sunset and entered a stretch of rolling hills dense with cactus, sage and towering carrizo cane. The way into the property was an unlit, narrow dirt road pockmarked with potholes, near a hydroelectric power plant.

Tribune News Service

A Historic Refugee Crisis Miscast As a Border Emergency

Providing legal ways to work or seek protection in America is the only viable way to reduce illegal immigration.

Reason

Texas silent after Guard member shoots migrant on border

Texas military records show a National Guard member shot and wounded a migrant during a struggle this month on the U.S.-Mexico border

The Independent UK

In a border graveyard, volunteers exhume migrants’ bodies and search for their families

In Maverick County, 26 bodies pulled from the Rio Grande were buried, some without attempts to identify them. Teams of Texas State students are trying to learn their names so their families can be notified.

The Texas Tribune

Migrant shot and injured by National Guard soldier patrolling border

It’s the first-known incident where a soldier has shot a migrant since the mission began. The injury is non-life threatening.

The Texas Tribune

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn eyes the seemingly impossible: a bipartisan deal on immigration

Riding the success of his historic congressional session last year where he helped pass the first gun safety bill signed into law in a generation, Cornyn is hopeful that his ability to strike deals across the aisle will help Congress achieve another elusive legislative goal: an immigration deal.

The Texas Tribune

Big group of Haitian migrants arrive on Virginia Key near Key Biscayne, Border Patrol says

MIAMI — A group of up to 70 Haitians arrived Thursday afternoon in a migrant sailboat off Virginia Key, a barrier island off Miami that leads to Key Biscayne.

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Tribune News Service

Texas congressman files for Mayorkas' impeachment over border crisis

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas filed articles of impeachment accusing the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of shirking his duty to protect the border.

The Texas Tribune

Joe Biden tours El Paso for first border visit of his presidency

He was greeted by Gov. Greg Abbott upon arrival at the El Paso airport. Abbott has been a chief critic of Biden’s immigration policies and has frequently called on him to visit the border over the past year.

Bangkok Post

Police stop nearly 90 cattle being smuggled from Myanmar

Border Patrol Police operating in Prachuap Khiri Khan province seized nearly 90 cattle being smuggled into Thailand from Myanmar on Saturday.

The Independent UK

Biden toughens border, offers legal path for 30,000 a month

President Joe Biden says the U.S. will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally

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‘I want to bring him home’: Families of Cuban migrants await them at Border Patrol station

MIAMI — Yarileisy Sierra was waiting for her younger brother to arrive with hundreds of other Cuban migrants Thursday evening at the Border Patrol Station in Dania Beach.

The Independent UK

Body armor shields Border Patrol agent struck by gunfire

Federal authorities say a Border Patrol agent in body armor was struck by gunfire but not seriously hurt while confronting the occupants of a vehicle suspected of smuggling migrants in New Mexico

Miami Herald

Cuban migrant arrivals overwhelm federal immigration officials in the Florida Keys

So many people from Cuba are arriving in the Florida Keys that days could go by before federal officials are able to pick up migrants on the side of U.S. 1 to be processed, according to local law enforcement.

Tribune News Service

Border Patrol has continued to leave migrants at bus stations amid ongoing flight cancellations

SAN DIEGO — The mass flight cancellations that have disrupted travel plans for many around the United States are continuing to complicate the situation in San Diego for arriving asylum seekers and the people who work to support them.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: 2 misconceptions and a truth about the US-Mexico border

The myths — or, rather, convenient lies — that some politicians keep circulating about the U.S.-Mexico border have resulted in another disappointing congressional session for immigration reform.

WEKU

El Paso tries to house many migrants in freezing weather – but some don't qualify

El Paso has scrambled to move migrants off the streets and into shelters as temperatures plummet below freezing, but federal law dictates which migrants can stay inside city facilities.

Los Angeles Times

Immigration reform hopes nearly extinguished as Congress approaches end of session

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders who hoped to strike a deal on immigration reform before the end of the year faced difficult odds to push proposals through for votes.

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